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Laura Lindsley, a house mother, talks with Sam while she folds clothes in the baby room at Calvary Home for Children. Sam lives in the Calvary Home. He is 13.

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Jack starts calculus homework at the Calvary Home for Children. Before he was sent to the home, he lived with different foster famlies. He is 16 and dreams of becoming an engineering student at Clemson University.

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Sam walks outside to play basketball after finishing his homework at Calvary Home for Children in Anderson. He said he used to be able to run around his neighborhood whenever he wanted, which changed when he became a foster child. He is 13.

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Denice Cope talks with Sam about his day at school. Cope is on-campus missionary and campus coordinator at the Calvary Home for Children in Anderson.

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House parents Adam and Laura Lindsley prepare dinner for Jack and Sam, right, at the Calvary Home for Children in Anderson. Jack jokes that he has a chef in the house with the house parents cooking.

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Adam and Laura Lindsley, left, house parents at the Calvary Home for Children in Anderson, and Denice Cope, top right, have a devotional with Sam and Jack, after dinner.

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Adam Lindsley, a house parent at Calvary Home for Children, watches Sam take a turn playing a basketball game called horse.

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Laura Lindsley looks at a drawing Jack made in his sketchbook. “It’s one of my favorites,” he says. He wants to take his art and math skills to use as an engineering student at Clemson University.

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Sam pulls out his social studies homework at the Calvary Home for Children. His house parents quiz him for an upcoming test, and he fires back the answers before the questions are finished. “I expect you to get a hundred,” house dad Adam Lindsley tells Sam with a smile.

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Sam shows a watch he bought for $5 from a school friend. Sam is living at the Calvary Home for Children.

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Sam puts away clothes in his room, one of many chores he has at the Calvary Home for Children in Anderson. He has lived in the foster home since he was taken away from his parents when there was no power in the family’s home. “Someone stole the power bill, so it didn’t get paid, and we lost our power,” he said.

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Sam tosses a football to himself in his room. He lives in one of four homes on the campus of Calvary Home for Children.

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A note from a child who once lived in the Calvary Home for Children in Anderson praises house parents Adam and Laura Lindsley for being part of her wonderful life. “I have a family that loves and cares for me,” the child wrote.